{"id":93392,"date":"2011-10-21T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T08:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2017-06-29T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:53:02","slug":"occupy-wall-street-journalists-face-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=93392","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Wall Street &#8211; Journalists face difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the\u00a0<a title=\"Occupy Wall Street\" href=\"http:\/\/occupywallst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy<\/a>\u00a0movement protesting against social and economic inequality rumbles on and spreads across the world, <a title=\"IFEX - Journalists covering Occupy Wall Street detained, beaten and pepper sprayed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/united_states\/2011\/10\/19\/ows_journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">journalists covering<\/a>\u00a0the protests are facing increasingly negative treatment from the police, particularly in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Freelancer Natasha Lennard,\u00a0<a title=\"Salon - Jailed for covering the Wall Street protests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/09\/28\/wall_street_protest_arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Farley<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"MetroFocus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/metrofocus\/\" target=\"_blank\">MetroFocus<\/a>\u00a0magazine and Kristen Gwynn, freelancer with news website<a title=\"AlterNet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>, were all arrested in the earlier stages of the movement, whilst a cameraman and a journalist from Fox 5 were both assaulted.\u00a0All three \u00a0were arrested because they didn\u2019t have the correct press cards.<\/p>\n<p>Since August 2010, the\u00a0<a title=\"NYPD - Press Relations Credentials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/nypd\/html\/press_relations\/credentials.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">responsibility to issue<\/a>\u00a0press cards in New York lay with the police department. A wide range of restrictions are in place to determine who qualifies as a journalist.\u00a0To be granted press accreditation, a journalist must have published or broadcast breaking news at least six times in the past year, and without a press card, they cannot cover the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Two other reporters have been assaulted during their coverage of the protests. Cameraman Roy Isen, of Fox 5, was pepper sprayed in the face, and his colleague, reporter Dick Brennan, was hit with a police baton.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reporters without borders - REPORTERS ARRESTED, ROUGHED UP WHILE COVERING OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/spip.php?page=article&amp;id_article=41190\" target=\"_blank\">Rumours are suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that anyone with a camera is being targeted by the police force, including professional and citizen journalists, hampering coverage of the protests. NYPD have denied those with cameras are being singled out.<\/p>\n<p>The Occupy movement has adopted the slogan \u201cwe are the 99%\u201d, noting the difference in wealth with the top 1 percent of earners in the USA. The\u00a0protests began in New York on 17 September and have become referred to as\u00a0<a title=\"Guardian - Occupy protests around the world: full list visualised\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2011\/oct\/17\/occupy-protests-world-list-map\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;951 cities in 82 countries&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0having spread across the world to cities including Reykjav\u00edk, Amsterdam, Auckland and Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alice Purkiss:<\/strong> Occupy Wall Street &#8211; Journalists face difficulty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[581,1],"tags":[839,14296,4054,727,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93775,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93392\/revisions\/93775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}